I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character. (François-René de Chateaubriand)

I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

François-René de Chateaubriand

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